Re: Hands-on, Minds-on

Hiroaki Ishiguro (h-ishi who-is-at ipc.miyakyo-u.ac.jp)
Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:07:39 -0700

Hi Francoise,

> I can mail you a copy of the
>Hands-on/Minds-on paper via the US postal service as I only have
>it in hardcopy and gladly so.

I am looking foward to reading your paper.

>As for the description of transformation from surprise to
>dissonance to a change in activity, I can only think that all of
>this is mediated in language use, the tool that is both avenue for
>observation and through which these changes occur.
>Transformation, however, in my view invokes the interaction of two
>elements each of which is no longer the same when taken separately
>after the interaction. Experience and understanding, are of course
>two such elements.

I agree approximatly with you. And I would like to add gestural changes
in the transformation because some of visiters to a museum did not talk
nothing but leaned forward and looked at an exhibition intently.
Probably their inner conversation were transformed at that time.
But are there any tacit knowledge transformation without
language mediattion at that time, too?

I am at the stage of understanding after the observation(experience)
with your assist.
Thank you.
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